hindlimb
A (free) limb that is connected to a pelvic girdle region. The extent of this structure includes autopod, stylopod and zeugopod regions when present, but excludes the pelvic girdle and its parts. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.
What the hindlimb is
A (free) limb that is connected to a pelvic girdle region. The extent of this structure includes autopod, stylopod and zeugopod regions when present, but excludes the pelvic girdle and its parts. The atlas records it as a region at the region scale in the human body.
Where the hindlimb is
It sits in the lower limb. Only the region is known. The position shown is somewhere plausible inside it and nothing more.
What the hindlimb connects to
The atlas records 94 typed relationships for it, across 11 kinds of connection. part of appendage girdle complex and pelvic complex.
Supply and innervation
Arterial supply: peroneal artery. Venous drainage: external iliac vein. Innervation: lumbosacral nerve plexus.
Also called
Also recorded as free lower limb, hind limb, hind-limb, hindlimb, inferior member and lower limb, and 4 more. Searching any of those names reaches this page.
Source
Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0002103, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.
- Part of: appendage girdle complex and pelvic complex.
- A kind of: anatomical structure, limb and organism subdivision.
- Connected to: pelvic girdle region.
- contains: accessory saphenous vein, ankle joint, anterior tibial artery, anterior tibial vein, arcuate artery of foot and calcaneal tendon, and 73 more.
- contributes to morphology of: hindlimb stylopod and hindlimb zeugopod.
- subtype: left hindlimb and right hindlimb.
- has skeleton: hindlimb skeleton.
- Drained by: external iliac vein.
Questions
Where is the hindlimb?
It sits in the lower limb. Only the region is known. The position shown is somewhere plausible inside it and nothing more.
What does the hindlimb connect to?
Part of: appendage girdle complex and pelvic complex.
Is the hindlimb the same in other species?
Leumas holds the same relationship vocabulary for every species it carries, so where another dataset records this structure you can put the two side by side on /compare.